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Journal Article
Teaching Twentieth Century American History Topics Through the Rearview Mirror of Motorsports
2021
Overview
[...]of enrolling and completing the course, students often demonstrated an even higher level of interdisciplinary learning and American history recall than expected by the two instructors. Keywords: interdisciplinary learning, American history, motorsports, course development INTRODUCTION Over the last forty years, motorsports has grown to become one of the most popular spectator sports in the United States, second only to professional football. Since the turn of the nineteenth century, Americans and international drivers have raced on two and four wheels and drawn throngs of fans to dirt tracks, public roads, board tracks, sandy beaches, purpose-built tracks, and city streets. According to Carlaton University (n.d), an interdisciplinary pedagogical approach leads to greater critical thinking and cognitive development. [...]a group of black entrepreneurs, along with several white financiers, created the Colored Speedway Association in 1924 and its Gold & Glory Sweepstakes - a racing series for African American drivers and mechanics based in Indiana (Gould, 2019).
